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- noun The quality of being
arboreal , of living in trees
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The Puerto Rican land mammal fauna was dominated by a rodent radiation occupying a wide variety of niches before human arrival in the West Indies, but although arboreality is correlated with increased likelihood of survival in Quaternary mammalian extinction events, all of this fauna is now extinct.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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(I do simplify ... some primates are not as arboreal as others, and the constraint I mention here is more severe in the New World where arboreality is much more intense.)
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(I do simplify ... some primates are not as arboreal as others, and the constraint I mention here is more severe in the New World where arboreality is much more intense.)
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The Late Permian herbivore Suminia and the early evolution of arboreality in terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems TrackBacks
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Lemur catta) and brown lemurs (Eulemur sp.) of southern Madagascar have different socio-ecological characteristics which allow a test of these theories: Both gregarious primates have a phytophagous diet but different circadian activity rhythms, degree of arboreality, social systems, and slightly different body size.
Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010
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However, this study suggests that vertical climbing and arboreality were not significant parts of their locomotor repertoire. "
unknown title 2009
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